Whip-holder.



No. 807,562. PATENTED DEC. 19, 1905.

A. LAWREY, JR.

WHIP HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.21,1904.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

ALONZO LAWREY, JR, OF CHEROKEE, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO LAWREY AND BANISIER, OF CHEROKEE, IOWA, A FIRM.

WHIP-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

Application filed December 21, 1904. Serial No. 237,812.

To all whom it uuty concern.-

Be it known that I, ALoNzo LAWREY, -Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Cherokee, in the county of Cherokee and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Whip-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in whip-holders. It is designed more especially for holding or suspending the whip when the team or vehicle in connection with which it may be used is put up or not in use and to provide for effecting this with expedition or facility and in a very simple and economic manner.

Said invention consists of certain structural features substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and particularly pointed out by the claims.

. In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a view thereof in plan as applied to one of the sections of a buggy-top-locking lever. Fig. 2 is a front or side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the whipholder in edge elevation.

In the carrying out of my invention I produce the same, preferably, as shown, contin uously from a single piece of malleable metal. Of course it may be made otherwise and from any suitable metal or material. The metal piece has a keeper or stirrup-like formation 1 to permit of the ready application thereof to one arm or branch of a buggy-top-locking lever 2, as illustrated, said metal piece also being rebent or returned upon itself, as at 1. Said rebent or returned portion 1 has its terminal 1 extended or inclined outward or forward and upward, the same having a moderate slope and standing at an obtuse angle to said stirrup formation. Said inclined terminal 1 is bifurcated or deeply notched in practically V form, as 1*, to provide for readily or conveniently receiving the whip top or lash, which is laterally inserted thereinto. The lash or top is thus wedged or suspended in place both as against downward displacement by the peculiar outline of the notch or bifurcation 1* of said terminal portion and as against lateral or outward displacement by the upward inclination thereof, as will be readily appreciated, while permitting the quick removal of the whip for placing it within the vehicle, as is done when hitching or connecting the horse or team to the latter.

It will be understood that this whip-holder is for use for holding the whip only when the vehicle or buggy isput away in a suitable place for its housing, it serving somewhat after the fashion of a rack for the temporary suspension or support of the whip at a conveniently-accessible point.

A suitable nut-equipped and headed bolt 3 is preferably employed for the securing of the Whip-holder upon the branch or arm of the buggy or vehicle top lever, as above indicated, said bolt being passed through coincident oralining apertures produced through the upper and lower portions or legsof the keeper formation 1 near their inner ends and laterally of said lever-arm after the slipping of said keeper upon said arm.

I claim 1. In a whip-holder, the combination, of a metal piece having a keeper formation effective for application to a buggy-top-locking lever and having an upper rebent portion deflected or inclined upward and outward and provided with a practically V-form slot, and means for its retention upon said lever.

2. A whip-holder, consisting of a metal piece having a keeper or stirrup-like formation, returned or bent upon itself, said returned or rebent portion extended. into an upward and outward inclined terminal provided with a notch or bifurcation of V form.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- ALONZO LAWREY, JR. Witnesses:

E. S. BLooK, W. F. ESHLEMAN. 

